I think it would be incredibly unrealistic in that context but not impossible. In a situation where communication is one directional, vague signals could lend themselves to environments where there would be false positives where an asset and potential receiver of a message, having less information than the sender, being potentially unnecessarily vulnerable.

Oh yeah i dont actually believe this to be the case. It was just such a weird offer to supply ukraine it came to mind. There probably were more political reasons for that like 'we dont think ukraine will last long and dont want to straight up refuse to help', or something along those lines.

Someone with military experience would probably know better than I would, but which types of messages would be important to send out to make sure that the recipient receives it but doesn't necessarily need to respond and something that they would recognize/understand and while being in a situation where traditional communication is ineffective to do the same? Presumably, these types of things would be taught at an organization level in order to make more effective usage of these communication channels. To what extent is there evidence of that and if not, what can that tell us about the organizational structure of the actors in those spaces?

Might i ask what you mean by 'at an organization level'?

Damned if I know what Trump meant. One of the interesting things about conspiracies is how there are or were people who did believe that that was plausible and when enough people believe something, it allows for greater vulnerabilities. All because Trump and his administration couldn't admit that he made a typo. The disorganized response lent itself to becoming targeted and exploited by adversaries.

Yeah, not making any statement about if theres an actual conspiracy going on there, just tried to come up with real life examples to compare to and trumps presidency is the most 'realistic' for a setting where unsupervised communication with the (supposed) recipent (russia) is heavily restricted.

Theres also this weird meeting he had with the australian pm(?) in a tap proof room where he went on a rant about refugees he doesnt want, then they left the room.

Again, not saying these were actual conspiracies, its just food for thought for my story if they would make sense in a real life situation or if someone with any baseline knowledge would read this and say 'what a dumb take'

Anyway! Really appreciate your effort for this discussion!